Tuesday, June 24, 2008

When you copy and pest some matter from web site to a word document it keeps hyperlinks from original web site by default. These blue underlines look very annoying when printed. So if you want to remove hyperlinks from your word document here is a shortcut:-

1. Select whole document by pressing CTRL and A together.2. Now hold CTRL and Shift and press F9.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

How can you change IP address of a remote computer? Well the easiest way is to run regedit, open file menu and click “Connect to remote registry”. Now navigate to appropriate key and change TCP/IP configuration as shown below-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current Control Set\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{}]"IPAddress"=REG_MULTI_SZ:""

Now you have to restart the remote commuter to make the configuration changes effective. To restart remote computer open computer management, right click on “Computer Management (Local)” => “Connect to another computer…” => type the name of another computer => Click OK. Now right click on “Computer management” choose “Properties”

Click on advance TAB => click on “Startup and recovery” Setting button. In “Startup and Recovery” dialog box click on “Shutdown” button now choose restart from action radio and specify force application close behavior (if some one is working on that system than you should choose “never” to prevent data loss. If you want to restart immediately than choose “Always” click on. Wait for some time the remote system will be restarting…

Thursday, June 12, 2008

How to clear the print queue in Windows when all the jobs get “stuck” and none of the jobs can be deleted.

It's easy enough to cancel a print job in the queue - you simply right-click it and select "cancel," after which the print job status commences to display "deleting..." After which you normally expect the print job to cancel and disappear so you can resume printing, correct? Unfortunately, often the print job will hang and prevent you from continuing to print anew from that same printer.

2. Scroll down to the Print Spooler service and right click on it and select Stop. In order to do this, you need to be logged in as Administrator. At this point, no one will be able to print anything on any of the printers that are being hosted on this server.

3. Next you need to go to the following directory: C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\PRINTERS. Delete all the files in this folder. This will clear all print queues (it’s a good idea to first make sure there are no other print jobs being processed on any of the other printers on the server because doing this step will delete those jobs also)

4. Now you can go back to the Services console and right-click and choose Start for the Print Spooler service.

You can also go to a command prompt and type net stop spooler or net start spooler to start and stop the service.